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1,005,787. Patented Oct.10,1911.

marina shares ramsi* orrrcn GEORGE I-I. SIBLEY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO STEPHEN J.

SIBLEY, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

FABRIC-PACKAGE.

Specifieation of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 10, 1911.

Original application filed June 2, 1909, Serial No. 499,794. Divided and this application filed May 4, 1910.

` Serial. No. 559,355.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. SIBLEY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Fabric-Package, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in packages of wound fabric which are designed to be placed on rollers or cores and subsequently unwound therefrom by drawing on the eXposed ends of said fabric, such rollers or cores having imparted thereto the same rotary or oscillatory motion that is imparted to the packages when unwound, and said invention consists of a hollow corrugated core or lining and a package of fabric, the latter being either. wound on said lastmentioned core or wound so as to leave a Central longitudinal Opening or passage into which the corrugated core is introduced, as hereinafter set forth.

The Object of my invention is to provide fabric packages with simple, convenient and adequate means for preventing the same, when mounted on a suitable supporting roller or core, from rotating independently of said supporting roller or core.

A further Object is to provide a package of this kind which can be fiattened for convenience in shipping, and then expanded into roll form in readiness to receive the rotatable or oscillatory member upon which it is to be mounted and with which it is to have, through the medium of its corrugated core or lining, a reasonably strong frietional engagement;

This device is particularly useful for a toilet-paper package for use in a fixture designed to receive it and to permit the paper to be fed only in predetermined lengths, such a fixture, for example, as that disclosed in my co-pending application for Letters Patent of the United States filed June 2, 1909, Serial No. 499,794, of which this case is a division.

I attain the objects and secure the advantages of said invention by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichv Figure 1 is a perspective view of a package embodying my invention, the same being represented in its flattened condition as usually supplied; Fig. 2, an end elevation of said package expanded or in roll formation and mounted on a core; Fig. 3, a central longitudinal section through such mounted package, and, Fig. 4, an end elevation of a flattened package on a similar kind of a supporting core.

Similar figures refer to similar part-s throughout the several Views.

In the drawings, first. considering what is shown in F igs. l, 2 and 3, a paper or other fabric package is represented at 1 in which there is a central longitudinal passage 2, and a hollow corrugated core or lining is represented at 3, the latter being in said passage. In Figs. 2 and 3, at 4, appears an expanding core for the package. This core is shown in the drawings to' be in the form of a cylindrical body which is intended to be mounted in some suitable manner in a suitable case, as

a part of a so-called fixture, and in sucha way that it can be rotated, partially rotated, or oscillated.

The hollow core or lining 3 should be made preferably of some suitable fiexible or yielding and somewhat elastic material, such as paper stock, so that it will collapse to a greater or less extent when the package of which it constitutes a part is flattened, and will grip the expanding core as will presently be more fully explained. The ribs and grooves resulting from the corrugating of said material extend parallel with the aXis of said lining. The lining is-usually pasted, glued, or otherwise permanently afiixed by its onter ribs to the interior of the passage 2.

The ends of the core 4 are rounded more or less at 5 to facilitate crowding said core into the lining 3, the inner ribs of which latter are adapted to a cylindrical surface of a diameter slightly less than that of said core. Thus it is that the corrugated lining constitutes a. means for constrictively holding the package when in roll form on the supporting core and preventing any possibility under normal conditions of either the package or the core slipping relative to each other. It will thus be observed that a distinctive feature of the present invention is that of the corrugated lining presenting a great number of holding bonds or ribs which are forcibly crowded into binding engagement with the paper-roll so as to prevent independent rotation of the elements when the core is crowded into place.

The packages, each comprising its many convolutions of fabric and the hollow corrugated core or lining, are as a rule produced first in a circular tubular form, and then they are generally compressed into the flattened form shown in F ig. 1, whereby a greater number of them can be packed for transportation or kept in stock while occupying proportionately less space than would be the case if said packages were in circular or roll form. These flattened packages are eXpanded or pressed into roll form before introducing the supporting cores into them, and no difliculty is experienced in so changing their shape as a preliminary step to the introduction of the cores.

The corrugated lining holds the fabric roll to the core while the fabric is unwound and removed, this operation in the case of toilet-paper generally involving an oscillatory motion on the part of said core and roll, the former being stopped at a certain point in its movement in one direction and the paper then being torn off, and it is during the time the paper is being torn off particularly that it is necessary to overcone any tendency of the roll to slip or creep on the core. The corrugated lining does this, that is, it prevents slipping or creeping of the parts. When the roll becomes exhausted, %the lining, which is then all that is left of the original package, may be stripped from the core and a fresh package mounted thereon.

The same elements arranged in the same way as appear in the first View are shown in the last view, and in addition to these is a solid flat core 6 in place of the core 4 used in the first instance. The ends of the core 6 are rounded at 5 as before, and the functions of the members and application of the device in this example are identical With those in the other.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

As a new article of manufacture, a fabric package comprising, in combination, a continuous length of fabric convoluted into a roll body having an Opening through its center, and a longitudinally corrugated lining formed of flexible and elastic material and inserted in said center Opening of the roll body, the Opening through the lining being adapted to receive therein an expandv ing core of the same cross sectional 'area as said Opening whereby the insertion of the core eXpands the lining to bring its corrugations into a binding and holding engagement with the roll body.

- GEORGE H. SIBLEY.

Witnesses:

F. A. CUTTER, A. C. FAIRBANKS.

Copes of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G." 

